18 February 2016

A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that “makes the face ugly.”

Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leaderappointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.

The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title “Mufti of Gaza,” came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues. Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.

"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said. The hitting should "be like a joke," even reinforcing "the love and friendship" between the couple.

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A court appeal launched by the former Conservative government seeking to rescind bail for Omar Khadr has been dropped by the Liberals as a part of the government's commitment to "review its litigation strategy."

Chalk up another win for Prime Minister Care Bear.

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LAST WORD: Math is hard

There were any number of “placeholders” in the Liberal platform – such as the cost of resettling Syrian refugees, pegged at $100 million during the election, now estimated at $1.2 billion.

*the syrian refugees are apparently now refusing to take the offered accommodations because they want to live together as a tribe... and not be scattered among dirty infidels and forced to assimilate and, for instance, learn english.

justin's solution is to set up little muslim enclaves on seven canadian military bases. anybody else see any sort of problems here.